When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

I want him now and always, and I want our always to start right now.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.